what the night knows

Maybe it’s just time that I was jaded.  Or maybe my favorite authors are just running out of ideas.  Either way, this hasn’t been a good book week for me. 

When John was fourteen years old he discovers his parents and little sisters dead at the hands of a seemingly inhuman madman.  After killing this man with his own gun John finds out that his family was the fourth family that was murdered by the same man, 33 days apart.  Now, almost 20 years later a family has been killed in almost an exact way that the first family was murdered and John believes that in a matter of months his family will be next.

Hugely supernatural, yet not quite interesting or unpredictable I found myself skimming pages just to get to something more interesting.  While very different, there were too many similarities between this book and Relentless.  Two men who saw their families massacred grow up to find themselves and their families in danger inexplicably again.  There is a child, or three, who are mature waaaaaaay beyond their years and they have somehow created the key that will solve the problem in the last minute of the crisis.

And all the action will happen in the last 20 pages of the book.  Feel free to skip ahead.